background and objectives: patient satisfaction is a key feature of quality improvement in modern health care systems. the focus of patient satisfaction studies has been on inpatient satisfaction measurement. as such, valid and reliable instruments for assessment of outpatient satisfaction are lacking in the field. this study aimed to develop and validate a brief scale to facilitate assessing o...

Linguistic labels such as high, medium, and low are commonly used in different applications. Researchers in psychometrics argue that before adding new labels to applications, the labels must be empirically evaluated. In this paper, we explain the process of selecting labels for a security assessment application. We also show how we evaluate the labels empirically using a sample population from ...

Multidimensional scaling (MDS) techniques are statistical techqnies that convert information about distances between a number of objects into a spatial representation of these objects. These techniques were first discussed systematically in psychometrics [Torgerson, 1958; Coombs, 1964] as multidimensional extensions of univariate psychophysics and sensory scaling. Because they needed considerab...

this study was carried out to determine the psychometric properties of templer death anxiety scale (das), a tool, designed to assess the death anxiety. our sample comprised 106 nurses who were selected from two hospitals in tehran, iran, using a convenience sampling method and were then assessed using the templer death anxiety scale (das), reasons for death fear scale (rdfs), death obsession sc...